The Art of Eating announces its cookbook longlist for 2019

The Art of Eating magazine first appeared in 1986 in the
form of an eight-page black-and-white newsletter written by Edward
Behr. After three decades in print, it has transformed into a
digital, advertising-free magazine with subscribers and
contributors around the world. The magazine is about the best food
and wine - what they are, how they are produced, where to find them
(the farms, markets, shops, restaurants). For the past several
years, The Art of Eating has offered a prize for the best food book
of the year, and past winners include Bangkok
by Leela Punyaratabandhu and The
Aleppo Cookbook by Marlene Matar. The magazine has just
announced its longlist of nominees for the 2019
award.

Judges for this competition include an impressive list of food
writers and chefs including Julia Bainbridge, Helen
Rosner, and Frank Stitt amongst other culinary luminaries. Eight of
the twelve eclectic selections are cookbooks, and the others deal
with food culture, history, or the politics of food. EYB Members
will be familiar with the cookbooks as many of them featured in our
year-end "best of" lists. Nominees for the longlist include Member
favorites Feast: Food of the Islamic World by Anissa
Helou, The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Foundations of
Flavor by René Redzepi and David
Zilber (Artisan Books), and How to Eat
a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places by Diana
Henry.

Much like the Golden Globes and SAG Awards provide insight into
the Oscars, this longlist gives us a glimpse of what we might see
in the nominees for the JBF and IACP Cookbook Awards. I expect The
Noma Guide to Fermentation will pop up on many different award
lists, for example.

The winner of this award takes home more than just a trophy: The
Art of Eating Prize winner will take home $10,000. The shortlist of
candidates will be announced on February 12 and the winner will be
unveiled on February 26 on The Art of Eating website. Good luck to all of
the nominees, and let cookbook award season commence!